Thanks a lot, Stephan, that makes things a lot more clear. I appreciate you taking the time to further describe the difference between the Compress Antlib and the core tasks, and that you play a dual role between common compress and ant -- knowing that makes everything very reasonable and a lot easier to understand.
Thank you. I've also seen that you've resolved: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-122 Thank you very much! Do you have any ideas about when commons compress 1.2 might be released? I will build from source, test, and communicate on the commons-compress mailing list in the meantime. Thanks very much again, and I hope this finds you well! max --- On Fri, 10/29/10, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote: > From: Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> > Subject: Re: support for symlinks > To: dev@ant.apache.org > Date: Friday, October 29, 2010, 1:09 AM > On 2010-10-27, Max Birkoff wrote: > > > I must admit to being a little confused by your > suggestion. On one > > hand you seem to say "go to another project" and on > the other hand, > > ant's code base contains the tar code that I have been > using and would > > like to improve. > > 8-) > > This is what I wanted to say: > > If you are using Ant's codebase to get access to the tar > package, then I > recommend you use Commons Compress instead (and improve > that). The tar > package in Commons Compress started as a copy of Ant's code > but already > has been improved with things Ant itself doesn't need. > > > Do you plan to remove org.apache.tools.tar from your > code base? > > No. > > Since I'm a committer on Commons Compress as well as Ant I > usually merge > bugfixes from one to the other, but I don't invest time > into merging > enhancements that wouldn't be used by the tar/untar tasks > in Ant. > > And then there is the Compress Antlib which also contains > tar/untar > classes based on Commons Compress. Personally I > prefer working on the > Compress Antlib over adding features to the core tasks > because it is > easier - that doesn't stop other Ant committers from doing > it in a > different way. > > > Is supporting symlinks in a tar file just unimportant > to ant? > > So far it hasn't been important enough to any user of Ant > in way that > would have led to a patch. That's all I know. > > Stefan > > PS: yes, I've seen you've already approached Commons > Compress and will > look into the JIRA issue, I just can't promise a timeframe > for it right > now. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org
